How do i make my charachter ontop of the background? As it shows underneath

Question

I am making a game in python for a school project, and I'm trying to make a simple shooter when you just go up and down shooting enemies. However I am having trouble bringing the player above the background.

Code

import pygame, sys

class Player(pygame.sprite.Sprite):

    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.image = pygame.Surface((100,100))
        self.image.fill((255,255,255))
        self.rect = self.image.get_rect(center = (screen_width/2,screen_height/2))

    def update(self):
        self.rect.center = pygame.mouse.get_pos()


# general setup
pygame.init()
clock = pygame.time.Clock()

# game screen
screen_width = 1920
screen_height = 1080
screen = pygame .display.set_mode((screen_width, screen_height))
background = pygame.image.load("BackGround.png")

# player
player = Player()
player_group = pygame.sprite.Group()
player_group.add(player)
player = pygame.image.load("spriteshd00.png")

# caption
pygame.display.set_caption("Wild-West Shooter")

# makes game quit
while True:
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            pygame.quit()
            sys.exit()

    #drawing
    pygame.display.flip()
    player_group.draw(screen)
    player_group.update()
    screen.blit(background, (0, 0))
    clock.tick(60)


if __name__ == "__main__" :
    theApp = App()
    theApp.on_execute()

have looked for pygame tutorials? – jsotola Mar 19 '21 at 07:05 — jsotola, Mar 19 '21 at 07:05

Rabbid76 · Accepted Answer · 2021-03-20T09:21:46.893

Draw the character after the background:

while True:
    # handel events
    for event in pygame.event.get():
        if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
            pygame:quit()
            sys.exit()

    # update the game states and positions of objects
    player_group.update()

    # draw the background
    screen.blit(background,(0,0))

    # draw objects
    player_group.draw(screen)

    # update display
    pygame.display.flip()

    clock.tick(60)

The typical PyGame application loop has to:

handle the events by either pygame.event.pump() or pygame.event.get().
update the game states and positions of objects dependent on the input events and time (respectively frames)
clear the entire display or draw the background
draw the entire scene (blit all the objects)
update the display by either pygame.display.update() or pygame.display.flip()

Additionally you have to pass the player image to the Player class:

class Player(pygame.sprite.Sprite):
    def __init__(self, image):
        super().__init__()
        self.image = image
        self.rect = self.image.get_rect(center = (screen_width//2, screen_height//2))

# player
player_image = pygame.image.load("spriteshd00.png")
player = Player(player_image)
player_group = pygame.sprite.Group()
player_group.add(player)

Thank you. this works, quick question though it does not show the image of the character it just shows a white box. I tried putting player = pygame.imgame.load("the name") underneath the draw objects but that didnt work — Karma, Mar 19 '21 at 07:27

How do i make my charachter ontop of the background? As it shows underneath

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